• To: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>,John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: RE: bohemians, gentry
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 14:25:37 -0500
• Cc: wperry@f...,xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <879123D97A01D711B0F500508B4464E402773B@g...>

At 10:37 AM 12/4/2002 -0800, Jeff Lowery wrote:
>So let's see if I understand this:
>
>Are XML datatypes core technology? No.
>
>Are XML datatypes useful under certain contexts? Certainly.
>
>Can the support and transport of datatype information impose a burden in
>contexts where datatypes are not useful? Of course.

I agree with all of this.

>So why is this class warfare and not merely an argument for good software
>design?
>
>Politics?  Mmmm... could be.

Or perhaps because we don't spend enough time discussing this at the level 
of concrete examples and usage scenarios.

Jonathan

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